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Gifted, Bored, and Misunderstood: Why School Can Fail Bright Children
The people giving the descriptions are the mother or father of a gifted child who volunteered to work with me as I wrote about their experiences. These are all pseudonyms from my longitudinal study work. And no, things never seem to change in schools for very long and with great exceptions. Different Reasons and Possibilities […]
Giftedness Across a Lifetime – How schools, access, and opportunity shape gifted people of every age
It matters that people be aware of typical education policy. And yet, we all go to school for at least a little while, and we hope and trust that the schools know what they’re doing. When I write about gifted children and schools, I am writing about adult readers, as well. These realities and experiences […]
Introduction to a Longitudinal Study about Gifted Children and Adults
Yes, that’s what I do. I’m an investigative author who looks into why people turn out the ways that they do. In the summer of 2023 I released a book about the gifted children and their families with whom I’d worked in the early 2000s. Those kids are now grown up.[i] The book is The […]
Why “Good Fit” Matters for Both Gifted Adults and Gifted Children
It’s About the Sense of Belonging, Learning, and Well-Being Every child knows the difference between simply being placed in a classroom and truly feeling at home there. For gifted children, that difference can shape not only how much they learn, but also whether they feel understood, connected, and free to be themselves. “Good fit” in […]
Gifted Children and the Limits of Age-Based Schools
Most pre-school and elementary schools aren’t ready for your gifted child’s needs. In this post, we look at one common reason behind why gifted children have fairly universal, inevitable problems in the typical kindergarten through 8th grade school setting. In this short post, we consider how most schools are set up and designed. In almost […]
